1. Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. His parents led a transient life, moving from one place to another after work. His father had served in the http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/shanders.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Writer whose prose style, derived from everyday speech, influenced American short story writing between World Wars I and II. Anderson made his name as a leading naturalistic writer with his masterwork, WINESBURG, OHIO (1919), a picture of life in a typical small Midwestern town, as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. Anderson's episodic bildungsroman has been compared often to Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology "The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint his dreams of his manhood." (from Winesburg, Ohio

2. Sherwood Anderson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson

Sherwood Anderson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Sherwood Anderson in 1933. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. Sherwood Anderson September 13 March 8 ) was an American writer, mainly of short stories , most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio . His influence on American fiction was profound; his literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner Thomas Wolfe John Steinbeck , and others. edit Biography He was born in Camden, Ohio , the third of Erwin M. and Emma S. Anderson's seven children. After his father's business failed, they were forced to move frequently, finally settling down at Clyde, Ohio , in . Family difficulties led his father to begin drinking heavily. His father died in . Partly as a result of these misfortunes, Anderson eagerly worked odd jobs to help his family. It earned him the nickname "Jobby." He left school at 14. He moved to Chicago near his brother Karl's home. He worked as a manual laborer until near the turn of the century, when he enlisted in the United States Army . He was called but did not see action in Cuba during the Spanish-American War . After the war in , he attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio

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document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Browse Shop Log In Search Site: Sherwood Anderson American author Main born Sept. 13, 1876, Camden, Ohio, U.S. died March 8, 1941, Colon, Panama author who strongly influenced American writing between World Wars I and II, particularly the technique of the short story. His writing had an impact on such notable writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner Torrents of Spring (1926) to make a clean break and become his own man. Anderson went back to his advertising job in Chicago and remained there until he began to earn enough from his published work to quit. Encouraged by Dreiser , Floyd Dell The Little Review, The Masses, the Seven Arts, and Poetry. Dell and Dreiser arranged the publication of his first two novels, (1916; rev. 1921) and Marching Men (1917), both written while he was still a manufacturer. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) was his first mature book and made his reputation as an author. Its interrelated short sketches and tales are told by a newspaper reporter-narrator who is as emotionally stunted in some ways as the people he describes. His novels include Many Marriages (1923), which stresses the need for sexual fulfillment;

4. Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson, the third of seven children, was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. He left school at 14 and after various jobs served in the SpanishAmerican http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Janderson.htm

Sherwood Anderson Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Sherwood Anderson, the third of seven children, was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. He left school at 14 and after various jobs served in the Spanish-American War (1898-9). After leaving the US Army , Anderson worked as a manager of a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio. In 1908 he began writing short stories and novels. He moved to Chicago where he found work in an advertising agency. Anderson became friends with other writers in Chicago such as Floyd Dell Theodore Dreiser Ben Hecht and Carl Sandburg Anderson shared his friends radical political views and in 1914 and began having his work published in The Masses , a socialist journal edited by Floyd Dell and Max Eastman . This included the stories about small-town life that were subsequently published as Winesburg, Ohio

5. WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors | Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson has long been surrounded by myth. A romantic s dream, he abandoned a successful, wealthy lifestyle for that of a struggling writer. http://www.ohioana-authors.org/anderson/index.php

Ohioana Authors list Highlights of a Life The Ohio Connection The Works of Sherwood Anderson ... "The Seventh Street Ghost" by W. Schuck Sherwood Anderson has long been surrounded by myth. A romantic's dream, he abandoned a successful, wealthy lifestyle for that of a struggling writer. He perfected the casual, lyrical style of writing most recognized by his successor William Faulkner, and was instrumental in getting both Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway published. Beyond the legend is a man who demonstrated all sides of the American dream: a working boy, a businessman, and a worldly artist in the same lifetime. Music on the Show Artists: Composer William Flanagan, mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart, pianist Dennis Helmrich CD Title: Permit Me Voyage Label and Year: Albany Records. 1995 Narrator Fred Andrle (WOSU) Listen to the NPR 820 radio feature. The WOSU Stations, in partnership with the Ohioana Library, and with support from the Ohio Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, developed Ohioana Authors For more information, contact

6. Sherwood Anderson: American Writer Life and times of the short story master and author of Winesburg, Ohio and The Triumph of the Egg. http://american-authors.suite101.com/article.cfm/sherwood_anderson

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7. Sherwood Anderson Biography And Summary Sherwood Anderson biography with 549 pages of profile on Sherwood Anderson sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Sherwood_Anderson

Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Biographies Research Anything: All BookRags Literature Guides Essays Criticism Biographies Encyclopedias History Encyclopedias Films Periodic Table ... Amazon.com Sherwood Anderson Summary Order the Sherwood Anderson Summary Pack View 23 Sherwood Anderson Critical Essays Sherwood Anderson About 549 pages (164,784 words) in 31 products "Sherwood Anderson" Search Results Contents: Biographies Works by Author Summaries Reference Criticism Biography Name: Sherwood Anderson Birth Date: September 13, 1876 Death Date: March 8, 1941 Place of Birth: Camden, Ohio, United States Place of Death: Colon, Panama Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: writer, author summary from source: Biography of Sherwood Anderson 1,253 words, approx. 4 pages Sherwood Anderson visited Paris twice during his life; once in 1921 and once in 1926-1927. Each trip lasted only a few months and, of the two, the first was by far the more important. Indeed, the second tripwhich began in late December 1926 and ended... summary from source: Biography of Sherwood Anderson 593 words, approx. 2 pages

8. Hands By Sherwood Anderson SHERWOOD ANDERSON (18761941) had written two novels before Winesburg, Ohio, in which the tale Hands appears, brought him sudden fame. http://www.gaylib.com/text/clas6.htm

Hands By Sherwood Anderson In the presence of George Willard, Wing Biddlebaum, who for twenty years had been the town mystery, lost something of his timidity, and his shadowy personality, submerged in a sea of doubts, came forth to look at the world. With the young reporter at his side, he ventured in the light of day into Main Street or strode up and down on the rickety front porch of his own house, talking excitedly. The voice that had been low and trembling became shrill and loud. The bent figure straightened. With a kind of wriggle, like a fish returned to the brook by the fisherman, Biddlebaum the silent began to talk, striving to put into words the ideas that had been accumulated by his mind during long years of silence. Wing Biddlebaum talked much with his hands. The slender expressive fingers, forever active, forever striving to conceal themselves in his pockets or behind his back, came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression. The story of Wing Biddlebaum is a story of hands. Their restless activity, like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird, had given him his name. Some obscure poet of the town had thought of it. The hands alarmed their owner. He wanted to keep them hidden away and looked with amazement at the quiet expressive hands of other men who worked beside him in the fields, or passed, driving sleepy teams on country roads. When he talked to George Willard, Wing Biddlebaum closed his fists and beat with them upon a table or on the walls of his house. The action made him more comfortable. If the desire to talk came to him when the two were walking in the fields, he sought out a stump or the top board of a fence and with his hands pounding busily talked with renewed ease.

9. EReader.com: Author: Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson (18761941), the third of seven children, was born in Camden, Ohio. He left school at 14 and after various jobs served in the http://www.ereader.com/author/detail/1811

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10. HEMINGWAY'S PARIS: WRITERS And BOOKS: Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson (18761941). Ohio writer Anderson achieved fame with his third book, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a collection of short stories about life in a http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/anderson.htm

HEMINGWAY'S PARIS: WRITERS and BOOKS: Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Ohio writer Anderson achieved fame with his third book, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a collection of short stories about life in a small American town. Hemingway met Anderson in Chicago in 1921, and Anderson urged Ernest and Hadley to move to Paris. After their marriage on September 3, 1921, they took Anderson's advice, and he supplied them with letters of introduction for some of the leading literary figures in Paris. Hemingway's first American publication was with Boni and Liveright, also Anderson's publisher. Although Hemingway seems to have admired Anderson early, his pattern of turning against a mentor or friend held true in this case, too. Anderson's Dark Laughter , which appeared in 1925, prompted the satirical Torrents of Spring by Hemingway, which was so transparent an attack on the Anderson novel and style that Boni and Liveright had to reject the manuscript, thereby breaking their contract with Ernest, and leading him to Scribner's, with whom he was associated the rest of his life. Back to On-line Seminar Back to E. H. Brief Life

11. Sherwood Anderson@Everything2.com Sherwood Anderson was an American author who published a number of novels in the first half of the Twentieth Century. His most famous work, and one of the http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Sherwood Anderson

12. Sherwood Anderson - Authors - Books - Fine Arts - News Now here s a fantastic machinima novel written by Sherwood Anderson, titled The Dumb Man . Very Edgar Allan Poeesque, if you love the genre. I know I do. http://www.wikio.com/fine_arts/books/authors/sherwood_anderson

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13. Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson An American Career is the first critical introduction to this important Midwestern and American writer in over a quarter century. http://www.susqu.edu/su_press/defaultInformation/SherwoodAnderson.htm

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14. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Sherwood Anderson On September 13, 1876 sherwood anderson was born to Irwin M. and Emma Smith anderson in Camden, Ohio. He was their third child. http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_sherwood_anderson.html

My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Sherwood Anderson On September 13, 1876 Sherwood Anderson was born to Irwin M. and Emma Smith Anderson in Camden, Ohio. He was their third child. The family was forced to move shortly after Sherwood was born because his father's small business had failed. They finally settled permanently in Clyde, Ohio in 1884. The income was rarely adequate without the added help of the children's income. Due to the difficulties, Anderson's father began drinking heavily and his mother died in 1895. Sherwood was eager to take on odd jobs and earned the name "Jobby". However, his interests caused him to miss school often. He finally left high school before graduating. In 1896, Anderson left Clyde for Chicago where his brother Karl was living. He worked as a manual laborer until enrolling in the army for service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. However much of the story was reconstructed, Anderson did respond to the pivotal moment and broke from his job in Elyria. Instead of becoming a Bohemian artist though, he rejoined the advertising agency in Chicago. He sent for his family, wrote the circulars as he once had, and continued to write feverishly in his free time. In 1914, he divorced Cornelia and married Tennessee Mitchell. That same year his first novel was published, entitled Windy McPherson's Son. Along with his second, Marching Men, of 1917, he later commented that his first novels were raw and immature. He is best known for his classic collection of tales

15. Anderbio.html One day in sherwood anderson s life, Nov. 28, 1912, has assumed mythic proportions in the story of American literature. This was the day he left business http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/journalism/anderbio.html

Sherwood Anderson, A Brief Biography One day in Sherwood Anderson's life, Nov. 28, 1912, has assumed mythic proportions in the story of American literature. This was the day he "left business for literature," simply walking out of his office as president of the Anderson Manufacturing Co. (Home of "Roof-Fix Cure for Roof Troubles") in Elyria, Ohio, not only giving up a dream of becoming rich in American business, but also abandoning his responsibilities as a middle-class citizen, including a wife and three small children. Although this account oversimplifies a process that took several messy, frequently unhappy years, it is nevertheless true in spirit, making Anderson the best-known archetype of the gifted American caught between the pull of riches, success, respectability, and family responsibility on the one hand and the call of creativity, probably to be accompanied only by penury and disappointment, on the other. Anderson was born into a poor family in Camden, Ohio, on Sept. 13, 1876, but spent his formative years in the town of Clyde, Ohio,

16. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Links to information on the author and his works on the American Literature on the Web site maintained by Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/a/anderson20.htm

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) General Resources Sherwood Anderson Page (Robert L. Liebold) The Winesburg Photo Album (Robert L. Liebold) Sherwood Anderson Foundation (University of Richmond's Journalism Program) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) AuthorSheet on Sherwood Anderson The Online Winesburg Eagle , (the official publication of the Sherwood Anderson Society, Dept. of English, Virginia Tech) Storytown Tours of Clyde Clyde, Ohio Litweb Sherwood Anderson Page (The San Antonio College) The Dial: Sherwood Anderson Overviews of all the short stories in Winesburg, Ohio by Robyn Shaw " Student Instigators on Anderson's Short Stories Sherwood Anderson Unofficial Homepage "Morality, Mores, and the Worth of Words in Winesburg, Ohio" (Juan Martinez) Sherwood Anderson in Smyth County "Direct Objects: How Sherwood Anderson Treats Women in Winesburg, Ohio" (F. Michael Kunz) Modernism in 1919 Writings Winesburg, Ohio (ftp,Gutenberg e-text) The Door of the Trap May, 1920 (U. Virginia) The Triumph of the Egg 1920 (U. Virginia) The Rabbit-pen 1914 (U. Virginia)

17. Sherwood Anderson — Infoplease.com September 13 Birthdays Walter Reed September 13 birthdays Walter Reed, Arnold Schoenberg, Claudette Colbert, J. B. Priestley, sherwood anderson, http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0803933.html

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18. Anderson, Sherwood. 1919. Winesburg, Ohio Online publication of sherwood anderson s classic Winesburg, Ohio. http://www.bartleby.com/156/

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The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson Search all of Sherwood Anderson Advanced Search Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) , American author, poet, playwright, essayist, and newspaper editor, wrote Winesburg, Ohio (1919), "The Book of the Grotesque". A collection of excellent examples of the short story genre and set in small town America, the stories are loosely connected by journalist George Willard writing of the sometimes "grotesque" sides of the human condition including poverty, marginalisation, love and romance. Many of Anderson's contributions to American Literature reflect his own struggles between the material and spiritual worlds as husband, father, author, and businessman and also cover issues as wide-ranging from labour conditions to marriage. Sherwood Anderson was born on 13 September 1876 in Camden, Ohio to parents Irwin McClain Anderson and Emma Jane Smith. After many years during which the family traveled for Irwin to find work and Sherwood only periodically attending school, he moved by himself to Chicago, Illinois. He attended night school and worked various jobs including farm laborer, factory hand, and newsboy. He was a successful ad copywriter and served in the Spanish American War (1898-9). Early on he was writing his own poetry and short stories, influenced by such notable authors as Carl Sandburg and Gertrude Stein. Possibly because of his early transient life and often straightened circumstances he became known for his stories that gave a voice to small town American characters and their plight with finding the American Dream. In Ohio, Sherwood met and married Cornelia Lane in 1904 with whom he'd have three children, Robert, John and Marion. A few years later he founded the Anderson Manufacturing Company, a successful firm carrying a popular product called "Roof-Fix". He enjoyed the fruits of the bourgeois lifestyle of family and a stable income but it was not long before he suffered a nervous breakdown and divorced Lane.

20. PAL: Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Bassett, John E. sherwood anderson An American Career. Papinchak, Robert A. sherwood anderson A Study of the Short Fiction. NY Twayne, 1992. PS3501 . http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/anderson.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 7: Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) The SA Literary Center SA Review Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present ... Home Page Source: SA "I will be a servant to words alone." - SA An excellent storyteller, Anderson seems to be preoccupied by a need to describe the plight of the "grotesque" - the unsuccessful, the deprived, and the inarticulate. He sensitively describes poverty and eccentricity. His simple style, in the oral tradition of storytelling, influenced writers like Hemingway and Faulkner who, in 1956, acknowledged Anderson as "the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing which our successors will carry on." Primary Works Windy McPherson's Son Marching Men Winesburg, Ohio The Triumph of the Egg (short stories), 1921; Many Marriages Horses and Men (short stories), 1923; Dark Laughter Death in the Wood (short stories), 1933;

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